However, they do not have a right to have the matter heard by a judge who understands them in the language they choose to speak.

In addition to the majority decision, two other justices of the Court held that the parties did have the right to be heard and understood by the judge in the language of their choice, but on the facts of the case, that standard was met.

Cynicism and scepticism about Canada's Charter is often bred of more attention to pedigree than to principle.

Had Magna Carta been concluded under a system of representative government, the glare of lights and the whir of video-recorders, we would no doubt regard it too as a mere political compromise.

768 where the Court rejected the Beetz interpretation in favour of the case's minority decision of Dickson and Wilson.